Interface IDocumentFragment 

DocumentFragment
is a "lightweight" or "minimal" 
Document
object. It is very common to want to be able to

extract a portion of a document's tree or to create a new fragment of a document. Imagine implementing a user command like cut or rearranging a document by moving fragments around. It is desirable to have an object which can hold such fragments and it is quite natural to use a Node for this purpose. While it is true that a 

Document
object could fulfill this role, a 
Document
object can potentially be a heavyweight object, depending on the underlying implementation. What is really needed for this is a very lightweight object. 

DocumentFragment
is such an object.

Furthermore, various operations -- such as inserting nodes as children of another 

Node
-- may take 
DocumentFragment
objects as arguments; this results in all the child nodes of the 
DocumentFragment
being moved to the child list of this node.

The children of a 

DocumentFragment
node are zero or more nodes representing the tops of any sub-trees defining the structure of the document. 
DocumentFragment
nodes do not need to be well-formed XML documents (although they do need to follow the rules imposed upon well-formed XML parsed entities, which can have multiple top nodes). For example, a 
DocumentFragment
might have only one child and that child node could be a 
Text
node. Such a structure model represents neither an HTML document nor a well-formed XML document.

When a 

DocumentFragment
is inserted into a 
Document
(or indeed any other 
Node
that may take children) the children of the 
DocumentFragment
and not the 
DocumentFragment
itself are inserted into the 
Node
. This makes the 
DocumentFragment
very useful when the user wishes to create nodes that are siblings; the 
DocumentFragment
acts as the parent of these nodes so that the user can use the standard methods from the 
Node
interface, such as 
insertBefore
and 
appendChild
.

See also the Document Object Model (DOM) Level 2 Core Specification.

Inherited Members
Namespace: Telerik.WinForms.Documents.FormatProviders.Html.Parsing.Dom
Assembly: Telerik.WinControls.RichTextEditor.dll

Syntax

public interface IDocumentFragment : INode

Extension Methods